Mission Impossible Fallout: Under Hunt’s Skin

Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Tom Cruise and Ving Rhames. Photo: Paramount In my original review of the first movie in this franchise, I wrote that it’s underappreciated. I still consider…

The Mummy

When a mysterious tomb is found in Iraq, the military brings it to London… and it is soon revealed to contain the mummy of an Egyptian princess who made an…

Eyes Wide Shut 

After attending a Christmas party that results in an argument with his wife (Nicole Kidman), New York doctor Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) leaves their apartment and is ultimately tempted to…

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation

As the IMF is about to be shut down by the government, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) goes on the lam from the CIA and tries to prove the existence of…

Rain Man: Escaping a Bubble

Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman. Photo: MGM 1988 and 1989 were awkward years for the Academy Awards. It's not like there weren't any brilliant movies released, it's just that the…

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol 

Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is sprung from a prison in Russia by his IMF colleagues, but when a subsequent mission is botched and a bomb destroys the Kremlin, Hunt's team…

Mission Impossible: Unmasking a Traitor

Tom Cruise. Photo: Paramount Eleven years ago, I stepped out of a theater together with my buddies after watching Mission: Impossible and was as enthusiastic as any twenty-year-old can be…